USS Goldsborough (TB-20)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Goldsborough.

The first USS Goldsborough (Torpedo Boat No. 20/TB-20/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7) was a torpedo boat in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Louis M. Goldsborough.

USS Goldsborough (TB-20), in drydock, 6 June 1900.
History
United States
Name	Goldsborough
Namesake	Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough
Ordered	3 March 1897 (authorised)
Builder	Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, OR
Laid down	14 July 1898
Launched	29 July 1899
Sponsored by	Miss Gertrude Ballin
Commissioned	9 April 1908
Decommissioned	12 March 1919
Renamed	Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7, 1 August 1918
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 8 September 1919
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Goldsborough-class torpedo boat
Displacement	255 long tons (259 t)[2]
Length	198 ft (60 m)
Beam	20 ft 7 in (6.27 m)
Draft	6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) (mean)[2]
Installed power	3 × Thornycroft boilers 6,000 ihp (4,500 kW)
Propulsion	vertical triple expansion engine 2 × screw propellers
Speed	27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph) 27.4 kn (31.5 mph; 50.7 km/h) (Speed on Trial)[2]
Complement	59 officers and enslisted
Armament	4 × 6-pounder (57 mm (2.24 in)) guns 2 × 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes (2x1)

Goldsborough was launched 29 July 1899 by the Wolff & Zwicker Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; sponsored by Miss Gertrude Ballin; commissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard 9 April 1908.

Goldsborough based at San Diego, California, as a unit of the Pacific Torpedo Fleet, cruising for six years along the coast of California and the Pacific Coast of Mexico in a schedule of torpedo practice, and joint fleet exercises and maneuvers. She was placed in ordinary at the Mare Island Navy Yard 26 March 1914; served the Oregon State Naval Militia at Portland (December 1914-April 1917); and again fully commissioned 7 April 1917 for Pacific coast patrol and training new sailors throughout World War I.

She was designated Coast Torpedo Boat No. 7 on 1 August 1918, her name being assigned to a new destroyer under construction. The torpedo boat decommissioned in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, 12 March 1919 and sold for scrapping on 8 September 1919.

References

1. "USS Goldsborough (TB-20)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
2. "Table 11 – Ships on Navy List June 30, 1919". Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office: 725. 1921.

•  This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
• Additional technical data from Gardiner, Robert (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Conway Maritime Press. p. 157. ISBN 0-85177-133-5.

External links

• Photo gallery of Goldsborough at NavSource Naval History